Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Over 300 members of the Cornell and Ithaca community attended “My Big Fat Pakistani Wedding,” an event sponsored by the Pakistani Students Association (PSA). PSA president Saleem Malkana ‘06 said he hoped that presenting a mock wedding, complete with dinner, dancing and a professional mehndi artist, would be “the best way” to portray Pakistani culture. …

Rahman Baba is the Pashtuns’ most revered poet. Pashtun culture has suffered over the past few years with its link to the Taleban and Osama bin Laden. But that image may soon be revised with the efforts of two English teachers, Robert Sampson and Momin Khan Jaja, based in Pakistan’s North-Western Frontier Province. Working …

The biggest women’s colleges of India and Pakistan have started a student exchange programme aimed at boosting ties among a new generation after decades of hostility between the two countries. The Lady Sriram College (LSR) in New Delhi and Lahore’s Kinnaird College have joined hands to give students learning journalism and mass communication a chance …